Network setup

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

Hello all,
I'm going to (finally

)replace the nt-based network on my work with gentoo-linux and have some questions.
The net will be a file/proxy/mail server & 10 workstations (2 of them will be dual boot win2k/gentoo and all others gentoo-only) with 10-15 user accounts.
I was thinking on trying OpenAFS and also using Samba for the dual-boot systems. Each user will have his/hers home dir on the file server and when logging on any workstation it should me mounted and used as homedir & also mount another public share w/ his username / both get unmounted on logout.
Questions :
- which authentication scheme should I use so that the homedirs are mounted & used and how these dirs could automount/unmount upon login/out ? do I need local user accounts on each pc also or only on server ?
- does openafs play along well with samba sharing the same dir ?
Please help me since I' m not really an expert in network administration :-)

acidreign · Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 2:20 am Post subject: Samba and AFS.

I have had samba and afs sharing the same point , with no noticable problems. Although the solution that I provided was for a 20 machine network, the way that it was configured allowed the user to only have one login, and hence they could never be using both at the same time.

Public shares seemed (and still are) working fine, users reading and writing with no problems.

acidreign · Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 9:06 am Post subject: More thoughts,

Come to think of it.. the easiest way, might be to mount the /home partition at boot time, this way the user doesnt have to worry about having to fudge around at run time.

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece

orkid · Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2002 3:54 pm Post subject:

Is this where NIS comes in? http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/

zen_guerrilla · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 343 Location: Greece